So Much Majesty

 I – February Twilight
 
I stood beside a hill
Smooth with new-laid snow,
A single star looked out
From the cold evening glow.
 
There was no other creature
That saw what I could see
I stood and watched the evening star
As long as it watched me.
 
 
II – May Day
 
A delicate fabric of bird song 
Floats in the air, 
The smell of wet wild earth 
Is everywhere. 
 
Red small leaves of the maple 
Are clenched like a hand, 
Like girls at their first communion 
The pear trees stand. 
 
Oh I must pass nothing by 
Without loving it much, 
The raindrop try with my lips, 
The grass with my touch; 
 
For how can I be sure 
I shall see again 
The world on the first of May 
Shining after the rain?
 
III – Stars
 
Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still,
 
And a heaven full of stars
Over my head,
White and topaz
And misty red;
 
Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
That aeons
Cannot vex or tire;
 
Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill,
I watch them marching
Stately and still,
And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty.
 
IV – Snow Song
 
Fairy snow, fairy snow,
Blowing, blowing everywhere,
Would that I
Too, could fly
Lightly, lightly through the air.
 
Like a wee, crystal star
I should drift, I should blow
Near, more near,
To my dear
Where he comes through the snow.
 
I should fly to my love
Like a flake in the storm,
I should die,
I should die,
On his lips that are warm.
 
V – February Twilight (Reprise)